Vintage 80's style Stella badge

scooterdork · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:39 am Post subject: Vintage 80's style Stella badge

I saw that quite a while back, some users on stellaspeed (I believe) had a Stella badge made to look like the 80's era Vespa badge. That seemed to be a limited run and I haven't found any.

I've contacted a car emblem maker who can make them. Would anyone be interested in 1 (or 3) if these get made? Obviously the costs decrease a bit based on volume, as the setup costs can be spread out.

It would look something like this:
http://www.scooterloungeonline.com/product/New-497072563

There was a similar thread on this 6 years ago:
http://www.modernbuddy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23442

- Michael

NCJ8 · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:20 am Post subject:

I'd be interested Smile

langdonauger · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:26 pm Post subject:

Interested!

johnk · Joined: 03 Sep 2018 Posts: 69 **2012 Stella 4T**

I would buy 3.

Stanza · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 5:27 pm Post subject:

That's fun! Would these be injection molded, or 3d printed? Chromed, or painted?

youkiddin · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:58 am Post subject:

I'd be in on a set

scooterdork · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:25 pm Post subject:

These are not injection molded in such a small quantity. The company doesnt say exactly what the process is, but maybe 3D. Here is info on it as well as a gallery:

https://emblemart.com/newsite/chrome-emblems/

I have a quote for two sizes and they have artwork for the badge (see below). Size could be:

6" x 1.4"
or
4" x .94"

The cost for a small run of 15-20 would be around $20-25 per badge. I havent jumped in because I dont know if thats too high.

Thoughts? Thanks!
Michael

johnk · Joined: 03 Sep 2018 Posts: 69 **2012 Stella 4T**

I would still buy three at $25 each.

I'm not sure what the best size is. My Stella's in the shop at the moment, but I'll take a ruler to it as soon as I can.

According to this site, this style of Vespa legshield badge is 120mm x 18mm, or 4.72" x 0.71", which suggests that the smaller size is probably better, at least for the legshield. I don't know whether the same size or a different size would look best on the cowls.

Thank you for managing all this, scooterdork!

scooterdork · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:42 pm Post subject:

I thought the smaller would be best for the leg shield as well, based on measuring mine. Cowls could be larger I suppose, but that would muck with cost.

Thanks!

fintail · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 11:02 pm Post subject:

Interested. Was the emblem ever made?

johnk · Joined: 03 Sep 2018 Posts: 69 **2012 Stella 4T**

There's a beautiful Stella for sale in the Baltimore area with a badge like this.

https://baltimore.craigslist.org/mcy/d/phoenix-genuine-lml-stella-vespa-2/6756400151.html